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Zoobiquity what animals can teach us about health and the science of healing

In the tradition of Temple Grandin, Oliver Sacks, and Neil Shubin, cardiologist and psychiatrist Natterson-Horowitz and science writer Bowers look at the remarkable correspondences between the way human beings and animals live, die, get sick, and heal in their natural settings.

Main Author: Natterson-Horowitz, Barbara.
Other Authors: Bowers, Kathryn.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : A.A. Knopf, 2012.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Diseases > Animal models.
Veterinary pathology.
Medicine, Comparative.
Animal health.
Summary: In the tradition of Temple Grandin, Oliver Sacks, and Neil Shubin, cardiologist and psychiatrist Natterson-Horowitz and science writer Bowers look at the remarkable correspondences between the way human beings and animals live, die, get sick, and heal in their natural settings.
Physical Description: viii, 308 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-291) and index.
ISBN: 9780307593481 (hbk.) :
0307593487 (hbk.)
Author Notes: Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, M.D. , earned her degrees at Harvard and the University of California, San Francisco. She is a cardiology professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and serves on the medical advisory board of the Los Angeles. Zoo as a cardiovascular consultant. Her writing has appeared in many scientific and medical publications.

Kathryn Bowers was a staff editor at The Atlantic and a writer and producer at CNN International. She has edited and written popular and academic books and teaches a course at UCLA on medical narrative.

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